{"id":7751,"date":"2014-03-09T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T01:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7751"},"modified":"2014-03-16T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T23:37:14","slug":"podcast-semper-fido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-semper-fido","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Semper Fido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sheila Keenan and Nathan Fox talk Dogs of War on The Virtual Memories Show by Virtual Memoirist, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/12988988585\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7343\/12988988585_f982a7b00d.jpg?w=440\" alt=\"Sheila Keenan and Nathan Fox talk Dogs of War on The Virtual Memories Show\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 9 &#8211; Semper Fido<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9918\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7751-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7751-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We move through a human-centric world as if that is reality, but we&#8217;re surrounded by other species, and their species is centric to their world. I&#8217;m interested in how that works, not in humanizing other animals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/k9veteransday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">K-9 Veterans Day<\/a>, our guests are <a href=\"http:\/\/sheilakeenan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Keenan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnathan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Fox<\/a>, the writer and the artist behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0545128889\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0545128889&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Dogs of War<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0545128889\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, a YA graphic novel about dogs on the battlefield. We talk about their collaborative process and how it developed over the course of this project, as well as\u00a0the challenges of writing about war for a YA audience,\u00a0how the trajectory of dog use parallels the development of military technology, and the ways that our empathy for animals can help us better understand the cost of conflict.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want the power of time and imagination that resides in the white space between panels.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, find out about their circuitous paths to comics, the alchemy of a writer&#8217;s vision interpreted by an artist,\u00a0why Nathan launched an MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, and how Sheila\u2019s husband wooed her with a page of <em>Love &amp; Rockets<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise for Dogs of War<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starred reviews in <em>Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal<\/em>, and <em>The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens&#8217; Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>School LIbrary Journal<\/em> Top Ten Graphic Novels<\/li>\n<li>YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novels (Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of ALA\/American Library Association)<\/li>\n<li>ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9919\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7751-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=7751-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_9_-_Semper_Fido.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-on-cats-and-calamities\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Trachtenberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-war-is-a-self-licking-ice-cream-cone\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Martin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-show-must-go-on\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Langridge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-cartoon-character\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Wuerker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-manga-loids-and-steampunks\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Renn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?tag=podcast&amp;feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sheilakeenan.com\">Sheila Keenan<\/a> is an established author of books for young people, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312621566\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0312621566&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">As The Crow Flies<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0312621566\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, a picture book she did in collaboration with her husband artist Kevin Duggan, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0439692865\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0439692865&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Animals in the House: A History of Pets and People<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0439692865\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0545128889\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0545128889&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Dogs of War<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0545128889\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> is her first graphic novel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foxnathan.com\">Nathan Fox<\/a> was born in 1975 in Washington D.C. Raised from the age of five on the suburban outskirts of Houston, an early addiction to cartoons, commercials and video games led to a lifelong exploration of Narrative Art and the over-stimulation associated with his generation. In the hopes of making such an addiction his full time job, Nathan left Texas for Missouri, where he attended the Kansas City Art Institute. After graduating in 1997, Nathan pursued Illustration from Milwaukee, WI for the next two years with little result. Frustrated with pursuing editorial illustration and working as an offset pressman, he and his wife moved to New York City in 2000 where Nathan attended The School of Visual Arts (SVA) Illustration As Visual Essay Graduate Program. His work has appeared in <em>The New York Times<\/em> Newspaper and Magazine, <em>Interview, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Wired, ESPN Magazine, Print, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, Spin, Mad Magazine<\/em>, MTV Store Windows and Tshirts, Burton US Open 2009, Instant Winner and REAL Skateboards, DC Comics, Vertigo, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel and many other publications and mediums. In 2011, Nathan designed the curriculum for a new low-residency graduate program in visual storytelling and is now chair of SVA&#8217;s MFA Visual Narrative program.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Atomic Dog<em>\u00a0by Parliament. The conversation was recorded at Mr. Fox&#8217;s office at the School of Visual Arts on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue enCORE 200 microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (for me) and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0006H92QK\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0006H92QK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Audio-Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0006H92QK\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0(for them), feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001QWBM62\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001QWBM62\">Zoom H4n recorder<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001QWBM62\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. The intro and outro were recorded on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Mr. Fox and Ms. Keenan by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 9 &#8211; Semper Fido &#8220;We move through a human-centric world as if that is reality, but we&#8217;re surrounded by other species, and their species is centric to their world. I&#8217;m interested in how that works, not in humanizing other animals.&#8221; In honor of K-9 Veterans Day, our guests are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-semper-fido\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast: Semper Fido&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,26,4,1083,1183],"tags":[2096,1094,2440,1429,2443,2439,196,2442,96,2441,2445,2447,2448,2444,2438,2446,2358,831,607,2437,1733],"class_list":["post-7751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-literature","category-movies","category-podcasts","tag-abe-vigoda","tag-alan-moore","tag-brian-wood","tag-charles-burns","tag-dmz","tag-dogs-of-war","tag-drew-friedman","tag-hugo-cabret","tag-jaime-hernandez","tag-jerry-robinson","tag-jim-steranko","tag-joyeux-noel","tag-kazu-kibuishi","tag-love-rockets","tag-nathan-fox","tag-paths-of-glory","tag-paul-gravett","tag-r-crumb","tag-scott-mccloud","tag-sheila-keenan","tag-sva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-211","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7953,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-theory-and-practice","url_meta":{"origin":7751,"position":0},"title":"Podcast: Theory and Practice","author":"Gil","date":"June 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories:\u00a0Katie Skelly - Theory and Practice \"I'm never gonna be a parent, but if I were, I'd be like, 'We're skippin' this Goodnight, Moon thing; you're goin' to Pale Fire.'\" Cartoonist Katie Skelly joins the show to talk about her new book, Operation Margarine (AdHouse Books), which is really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"katietcaf","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf-620x326.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf-620x326.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/katietcaf-620x326.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7913,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-mimi-pond-the-customer-is-always-wrong","url_meta":{"origin":7751,"position":1},"title":"Podcast: Mimi Pond &#8211; The Customer is Always Wrong","author":"Gil","date":"May 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories: Mimi Pond - The Customer is Always Wrong \"With some of the people in the story, I thought, 'What if they get mad? 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